Titan: High-Resolution Speckle Images from the Keck Telescope

Icarus

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-201

  Gibbard, S G ^a   MacIntosh, B ^a   Gavel, D ^a   Max, C E ^a   De Pater, I ^b   Ghez, A M ^c   Young, E F ^d   McKay, C P ^e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared observations; Satellite; Surfaces; Titan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001699372     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6095     Document Type: Article

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